Improvement in pumps



ses tiuitml Messes-ww- 1F. BRlCKLEvOF W1 NCHESTER, INDIANA. Letters Patent No. 84,991, dated December 15, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN PUMPS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same. v

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, J. F. BRICKLEY, of- Winchester, in the county of Randolph, and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pumps;`

Ihis invention relates to an improvement in pumps;

and It consists, first, in a water-induction regulator, and

secondly, in the combination and airaugement of the parts, as will be hereinafter described.

A is the main or principal stock of the pump, the pper and lower sections of which are of wood, and are constructed in any suitable manner, and have the usual appliances connected therewith, consisting of a check-valve in the lower section to prevent the water from running down and out of the stock after it has once been tilled, while the` upper section contains a bucket, having a valve, which bucket isattached to a rod, which connects it to the handle.

B is the central section of the pump-stock, which may be of iron, brass, porcelain, glass, orany suitable material, to forma smooth cylinder for the bucket to work in.

C is an additional or second pump-cylinder or stock, arranged by the side of the iirst, and so arranged that its bucket or plunger may be worked by the'same handle which works the first, as clearly shown in iig. 1 of the drawings. This stock is supplied withthe usual appendages of an independent pump, except that it has not a check-valve in its lower end, the valve in the lower end of A answering for both pumps; the supply of water for this pump being drawn through the conmeeting-pipe a, and discharged, through pipe c, into stock A, from whence itpasses, through connectingpipe b, into the delivery-pipe E.

D is a column, of wood, which may, if desired, ex-4 tend to the bottom of the well, and may serve as a support for the pump to rest upon. This column has a hole bored from its top downwards, a distance of one-half its length, more or less, and it also has holes bored longitudinally from one of its sides inwards, to communicate with the vertical passage, which latter passages are ordinarily closed with spigots or plugs of wood, but they may be used as water-induction passages, whcn desired. I

E is a delivery-pipe, which is arranged vertically alongside of the two pump-stocks Aand C, andk which connnnnicates witlrthefirst, or A, by means of a connecting-pipe or passage', b, and with the second, or C,

' to the top of pump A, and its orifice is controlled by a spigot or by a plug of wood, which closes it air-tight,

l when the pumps are used only as' lifting pumps, which is to be opened or removed when it is desired to 'use them both as lifting and forcing-pumps, atwhich times a hose may he applied to the end of pipe E, to conduct `the water to any desired point, or other pipes maybe connected thereto, through which the water may be conveyed.

F is a exible hose or pipe, which is made of India rubber, gutta-p'ercha, leather, or any othersuitable material, and which serves generally as the inductionpipe to the pump.

To the upper side of this pipe or hose, as it is eX- tended ata right angle to the pump-stock, is attached, by means ofa chain or wire, a Hoa-QG, whichis of sufcient size and buoyancy to prevent the hose from sinking; while to the under side of said hosel is attached, in a similar manner, a weight, E, of suliicent size to vprevent the mouth of said hose from ever rising above the surface of the water.

The object of the above-described induction-pipe being to provide means for drawing the purest and best water from what are, termed sulphur wells, by always taking it from within one to two feet of the surface thereof. K'

I is the handle of the pump, 'which is of ordinary construetion,`but which is arranged to operate the buckets ofboth ofthe pump-stocks.

K is a metallic rod, which is placed vertically by the side of the rod which connects the buckets with the operating-handle, and which is secured thereto by lmeans of staples.

Near the upper end of this rod a screw is formed,

which works through a nut .secured to the rod, and above said screw, and so arranged as to project above the pump-stock, a handle is formed or secured for turning said rod. When it is desirable to convert the pump into a forcing as well as a lifting-pump, this, rod is screwed downwards until its lower end rests upon the valve L, on the top of the bucket M, thus holding the valve to its seat, by which means the water is prevented from rising up through the bucket, and the pump is converted into a forcing-pump, by which water maybe forced through delivery-pipe E, as above described.

L, fig. 2, shows the valve', and M, in the same figure, the bucket; thc same figure showing clearly the above-described arrangement of screw-rod; and it is proper to say that both of the plunger-rods are provided with the same means for pressing their valves upon their seats, and also that by regulating the lift o1' rise of such valves, the amount of water raised can be regulated when the pump is used a lifting-pump onlv.

Havinglthus described my inyention, l What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, ik

1. The combination and arrangement fpump-stocks A C and delivery-pipe E, substantially as and for the purpse described.

2. The arrangement of the stocks A and G and the delivery-pipe E, connecting-pipes a, b, and c, with reference to the valve-regulating rod K, by which the pump may be converted from aJ lifting-pump only into a lifting and forcing-pump, substantiallyvas described. 1n testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this speeieation, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

.J F. BRICKLEY. Witnesses:

J. A. MOORMAN, C. H. S:|.A.NLEY.A 

